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Description
This plan captures our work in January 2025. This is a 4-week iteration. We will ship in early February.
Since mid-December, GitHub Copilot has been available for free for everyone. This allows us to treat AI support as an out-of-the-box experience in VS Code. Consequently, going forward, we'll cover our client-side work for Copilot in this plan, similarly to how we have been tracking our work on our Remote Extensions over the last years.
Endgame
- Jan 27, 2025: Endgame begins
- Jan 31, 2025: Endgame done
The endgame details for this iteration are tracked here.
Plan Items
Below is a summary of the top level plan items.
Legend of annotations:
| Mark | Description |
|---|---|
| 🏃 | work in progress |
| ✋ | blocked task |
| 💪 | stretch goal for this iteration |
| 🔴 | missing issue reference |
| 🔵 | more investigation required to remove uncertainty |
| ⚫ | under discussion within the team |
| ⬛ | a large work item, larger than one iteration |
Accessibility
- 🏃 Accessibility issues, see query @meganrogge team
- 🏃 Accessibility issues in GHPRI, see query @alexr00
Workbench
- Support video formats in walkthroughs vscode#237810 @bhavyaus
- Support moveable quick open widget vscode#17268 @TylerLeonhardt
- Explore a QuickPick-like experience close to what invoked it vscode#238095 @TylerLeonhardt
- Support filtering in the output pane vscode#237432 @sandy081
- Support macOS Configuration Profiles as a policy backend vscode#148942 @sandy081 @joaomoreno
Code Editor
- 🏃 Investigation: Use tree-sitter for grammar colorization vscode#210475 @alexr00 @hediet
- 🏃 Explore GPU rendering of the code editor vscode#221145 @Tyriar @hediet
- 🏃 Add support for variable line heights vscode#147067 @aiday-mar
- 🏃 Add support for multiple fonts in the editor vscode#237346 @aiday-mar
- 💪 Explore computing the indentation level using tree-sitter's AST vscode#208985 @aiday-mar
Notebook Editor
- Show Inline values for variables in cell editor vscode#237263 @Yoyokrazy
- Improve markdown rendering in notebook (e.g., support custom fonts) vscode#143907 @Yoyokrazy
Jupyter Notebooks
- Improve Context key for execution/debug/run-by-line actions vscode-jupyter#16189 @Yoyokrazy
- 💪 Explore kernel persistence for Remote environments vscode-jupyter#16224 @DonJayamanne
Settings
- Fix fuzzy search in settings search vscode#226039 @rzhao271
Languages
Python
- 🏃 Contributions to the Python extension, see plan @karthiknadig team
TypeScript
- None.
Authentication
- Adopt Broker flow in Microsoft Auth provider via MSAL-node vscode#229431 @TylerLeonhardt
Source Control
- Add SCM accessibility help dialog vscode#203577 @lszomoru @meganrogge
- Support for ref context actions vscode#232992 @lszomoru
- Support holding a modifier key to show/hide editor blame decorations vscode#237433 @lszomoru
- Support opening commit in GitHub from blame hover vscode#237434 @lszomoru
- Support GitHub issue/PR links in blame hover vscode#237436 @lszomoru
- Support showing full commit message in blame hover vscode#237435 @lszomoru
Testing
- None.
Terminal
- 🏃 Improve upon terminal completions query @meganrogge
- Promote terminal ligatures from experimental query @Tyriar
- 🏃 Terminal Environment Variable API vscode#227467 @anthonykim1
- pwsh
- 🏃 bash - better perf vscode#238488
- zsh
- fish
- Terminal Shell Type API vscode#230165 @anthonykim1
- 🏃 New
conptysetting blocks update vscode#225719 @deepak1556
API
- 🏃 API proposals: query @jrieken @mjbvz
- 🏃 API finalization: query @jrieken @mjbvz
- Finalize document paste API vscode#30066 @mjbvz
Extensions
- Notify users of extension runtime model on extension install vscode#215527 @sandy081
- 🏃 Enable extension signature verification by default on Linux vscode#230816 @sandy081
Extension Contributions
- Support global PR queries vscode-pull-request-github#6448 @alexr00
Remote Extension Contributions
General
- None.
SSH Extension
- 💪 Better proxy support for remote (install, download extensions, etc) vscode-remote-release#5927, vscode-remote-release#10491 @joshspicer
- SSH Config parsing improvements @joshspicer
- Upgrade ssh-config dependency vscode-remote-release#10132, vscode-remote-release#10013
- Wildcard support for remote SSH platform vscode-remote-release#2997
- 💪 Resolve unique connection issues vscode-remote-release#10412, vscode-remote-release#6319, vscode-remote-release#6600 @joshspicer
- Allow connecting to unsupported Linux remotes, by use of custom glibc and stdc++ libraries vscode#231623 @deepak1556
GitHub Copilot
- Improve out-of-the-box experience vscode#236511 @bpasero
- Support
vscode:protocol handler for initial chat setup @bpasero - Improve Copilot setup view in secondary sidebar @bpasero
- 🏃 Consolidate Copilot status bar items vscode#237428 @bpasero
- Support
- 🏃 Improve Copilot Edits and explore self-guided multi-step editing in Copilot Edits vscode-copilot-release#3974 @kieferrm team
- 🏃 Provide support for next edit suggestions vscode-copilot-release#3975 @alexdima team
- 🏃 Make language-specific context available to Copilot inline completions vscode-copilot-release#3976 @dbaeumer
- 🏃 Provide support for prompt snippets vscode-copilot-release#3977 @legomushroom
Engineering
- Support building the monaco-editor AMD variant from new sources vscode#234114 @hediet @alexdima
Electron
- Electron 34 update vscode#237437 @deepak1556
- 🏃 Align Electron fetch with Node.js fetch electron#43715, electron#43712 @deepak1556
- 🏃 GetBoundingClientRect zoom adjustments vscode#233692 @deepak1556
Documentation
- Document extension runtime security vscode-docs#7874 @ntrogh @isidorn
Deferred
- 💪 Finalize Related code vscode#126932 @connor4312
- 💪 Explore supporting reverse search in tree find to remove filter widget vscode#227009 @meganrogge
- VSCode freezing when adding folder to workspace while working on remote Linux machine vscode-remote-release#10168 @joshspicer